View allAll Photos Tagged magellanicclouds
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 3200
f/3.2
Foreground: 6 x 15 seconds
Sky: 25 x 30 seconds
H-Alpha: 8 x 60 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 39 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above a lone tree on a farm at Contine, 1.5 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia.
Prominent in this image are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds to the right, small satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way. Just right of centre at the very top is the pink coloured Carina Nebula while just below that is the dark CoalSack Nebula with Crux (Southern Cross) to its immediate left.
I used an h-alpha filter to highlight the various red coloured hydrogen alpha emitting regions, most prominent in and around the core area on the left.
Nikon d810a
35mm
ISO 3200
f/2.0
Foreground: 8 x 15 seconds
Sky: 41 x 25 seconds
H-Alpha: 6 x 60 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 55 shot panorama of the summer Milky Way above a grain silo at Kondut, 2.5 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia.
This is the first time I have captured the fourth Southern Hemisphere arch of the Milky Way. Yes, we have four arches! This is the second of the summer arches, the more common one has both the Magellanic Clouds and Orion outside the arch, this has them inside the arch. There's only a small window of opportunity in which to capture it so I settled on a wider 35mm lens rather than my usual 50mm or sometimes 85mm panoramas which can take well over an hour to finish, but this took just 27 minutes. Much like the setting MW, this is taken while looking towards the west, well, more like south west.
These grain silos, aka grain receival points, are all over the Wheatbelt in WA, at almost every town along the rail lines. The only other building in this town was a house that probably belongs to the caretaker of this particular silo.
Most prominent in this image are a number of red hydrogen alpha emitting regions including the Gum Nebula, pretty much at zenith when I captured this pano which is why it looks so huge. Orion can be seen to the right and the Crux & Carina region to the left.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 6400
f/2.8
Foreground: 26 x 25 seconds
Sky: 72 x 20 seconds
H-Alpha: 9 x 60 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 107 shot panorama of the summer Milky Way arch and Comet G3 (ATLAS) above The Pinnacles Desert, 2 hours north of Perth in Western Australia.
As the comet was rapidly setting, I started with a six image stack of that then proceeded to take the rest of the panorama as I normally do, combining the images later using MS ICE. I had initially planned on using
an 85mm lens but soon realised that it would take far too long and the summer band of the Milky Way would be well past zenith by the time I had finished, which is not ideal for a number of reasons. Still quite happy
with the way this turned out.
Comet G3 is just above the horizon on the far right, its tail was quite huge spanning around 15 degrees. The Southern Hemisphere summer arch is to the left with hydrogen alpha regions highlighted in red, captured using a special filter. Inbetween the arch and comet are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds.
Nikon d810a
35mm
ISO 2000
f/1.6
Foreground: 10 x 15 seconds
Sky: 32 x 20 seconds
H-Alpha: 6 x 60 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 48 shot panorama of the Milky Way above the Stirling Ranges, 4 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia.
This was taken the same night as my previous posted image of the Lily Windmill, a night where I saw the strongest airglow I have ever witnessed. This is mainly due to the solar maximum we're currenlty experiencing which not only produces more intense aurora events but also more intense airglow.
The red areas in the image are hydrogen alpha emitting regions, from Zeta Ophiuchi on the far left to the Gum Nebula on the far right.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 4000
f/3.2
Foreground: 14 x 15 seconds
Sky: 35 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 49 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above a dry, salt encrusted Lake Norring, 2.5 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia.
Prominent in this image are the Magellanic Clouds, just right of centre. Diagonally right is the large, deep red Gum Nebula, captured in detail thanks to a screw on H-alpha filter. To the left of that is the pink Carina Nebula while the Zodiacal Light can be seen, quite brightly, lighting up the core area.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 4000
f/1.8
Foreground: 13 x 20 seconds
Sky: 35 x 20 seconds
H-Alpha: 10 x 60 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 58 shot panorama of the Milky Way, Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) & the Magellanic Clouds above the boardwalk of Lake Clifton, one hour south of Perth in Western Australia.
Lake Clifton is known as one of the few places on Earth where you can find 'living' Thrombolites and you can see them under the water to the right of the boardwalk. Venus is the other prominent feature in the sky, again enveloped in the Zodiacal Light and reflecting brightly off the water, which on this night was getting whipped up by a decently strong breeze that forced me to shoot with 20 second exposures rather than my usual 30 seconds. The two sources of light pollution are from the state's second largest city, Bunbury, on the left, around 90km south and from the nearby city of Mandurah on the right, about 20km north.
A little fun with the night sky in the southern hemisphere, as I shine my light (err torch) towards the larger of the Magellanic Clouds.
I had never seen the Clouds before this trip, and truthfully when I first saw the larger one around the campfire in the evening I initially thought there was a terrestrial cloud in the sky. My eyes hadn't fully adjusted, and the cloud is pretty darn large to the naked eye.
Thanks for looking!
_________________________________________________
Comments and constructive criticism always appreciated.
Stream on Black....Follow on Facebook....My Profile (to get to webpage)
Nikon d810a
35mm
ISO 4000
f/3.2
Foreground: 12 x 20 seconds
Sky: 27 x 25 seconds
H-Alpha:5 x 60 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 44 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above The Pinnacles Desert, 2 hours north of Perth in Western Australia.
Prominent in this image are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds in the centre, the red Gum Nebula just above and to the right of them. A little to the left is the pink Carina Nebula and on the left is the Sagittarius region that includes Rho Ophiuchi. There was also quite a bit of red and green airglow that adds a bit of colour to the scene.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 3200
f/2.0
Foreground: 20 x 30 seconds
Sky: 65 x 25 seconds
H-Alpha: 10 x 60 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 95 shot panorama of the summer Milky Way arch and Magellanic Clouds above the polygonal salt flats of Cowcowing, 2.5 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia.
Prominent in this image are the red hydrogen alpha emitting regions of Orion, at about 11 o'clock from my perspective standing in the middle of the image, and the Gum Nebula at about 1 o'clock. In the top right at the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds. There's also quite a bit of red and green airglow.
Nebulae and Clusters in the North East Quadrant of the Small Magellanic Cloud ( Tucana Constellation ) ( NGC 292, 299, 306, 330, 346, 411, 416, 422 ) by Mike O'Day ( 500px.com/MikeODay )..The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a small spiral galaxy about 7000 light years in diamater and is one of our near neighbours. At 'only' around 200,000 light years distance, it shines brightly in the southern sky and is clearly visible to the naked eye even in moderately ligh polluted skies. ..Links:..https://500px.com/MikeODay.http://photo.net/photos/MikeODay..Details:..This image ~ RA 1h 2m, Dec -72deg 2'. .Skywatcher Quattro 10" f4 Newtonian. .Skywatcher AZ Eq6 GT Mount..Orion Short Tube 80mm guide scope & auto guider - PHD2. .Baader MPCC Mark 3 Coma Corrector & UHC-S 'nebula' filter..Nikon D5300 (unmodified)..Field of view (deg) ~ 1.35 x 0.90..59 x 200 sec ISO 800 over two nights...Pixinsight & Photoshop.9 September 2015 & 11 October 2015 (re-processed 9 Apr 2016 )
When we reached the Dales Gorge campsite for a few nights, we saw the sign "Astro Session". I signed up immediately.
Phill is a super nice guy, our two-hour lesson under the Starry Sky of Karijini National Parks (WA) was informative and fun, and also very cold:)
Here he explains us how to find the southern sky direction and uses a powerful laser for it. You are welcome to guess which chocolate bar he distributed to us at the end of the lesson :-)
Rokinon 7,5mm fisheye.
Nikon d810a
ISO 6400
f/2.5
Foreground: 29 x 30 seconds
Sky: 53 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Starscape filter
This is an 82 shot panorama of the Milky Way above Yardie Creek Gorge at Cape Range National Park near Exmouth, 13 hours north of Perth in Western Australia. This was another of those precarious locations, literally one or two steps from falling off the cliff and into the river below but these are the things we do to get the right angle :)
El Desierto de Atacama es la región mas seca del planeta, lo que le otorga unos de los cielos más claros y limpios de Sudamérica y del Mundo. En esta panorámica, realizada en el paraje Aguada de Cachinales (Segunda Región de Chile), se puede apreciar el arco completo de la Vía Láctea y las dos Nubes de Magallanes. Esta toma es el resultado de un mosaico de 74 tomas individuales que fueron capturadas durante una hora y media de trabajo de campo, y compiladas luego de varias horas de trabajo en la computadora.
ENGLISH CAPTION: "Cachinales Springs" The Atacama Desert is the driest region in the world, granting some of the clearest and cleanest skies of South America and the World. In this Panoramic view, held at the ruins of Cachinales Springs old town (Second Region of Chile), you can see the entire arch of the Milky Way and the two Magellanic Clouds. This shot is the result of a mosaic made of 74 individual shots that were captured during an hour and a half of fieldwork, and stitched together after several hours of work in the computer.
30 sec @ ƒ/3.5 @ ISO 6400 (Panorama)
Canon EOS Rebel T3i
Canon EF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Tripode Manfrotto 190 Xprob + Cabezal Manfrotto 327rc2
Mis fotos/My pictures: Facebook / Flickr / 500px
© Todos los Derechos Reservados, No usar sin mi consentimiento.
© All Rights Reserved, Don't use without permission.
The Milky Way arcs across the sky all the way from Crux to Cygnus in this 30 image panoramic photograph. In the middle of the photograph there is the Moon, the large bright object above the moon in Venus and below the moon there are two other 'stars', Saturn on the right and Mercury on the left.
On the far left we have the large and small Magellanic clouds, our closest galactic neighbours. 3 galaxies, 4 planets (including Earth) and our natural satellite in the same frame :)
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 8000
f/2.5
Foreground: 5 x 25 seconds
Sky: 5 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 10 shot panorama of the Carina Nebula (top right corner) and the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds (centre) above Lake Ninan, 2 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia. The light pollution on the right is from the nearby Wheatbelt town of Calingiri.
The deep southern Milky Way arching across the sky, from Puppis and Vela at upper right, to Centaurus at lower left. The two Magellanic Clouds are at lower centre, with the Large Cloud at top. The Small Cloud is just setting above the treetops with the globular cluster 47 Tucanae visible as a star below the Cloud amid the trees.
The Carina Nebula and Southern Cross are at upper left, and the paired stars of Alpha and Beta Centauri are rising above the trees at left. Canopus is at right, while Sirius shines through the gum tree at upper right. The faint red arc of the Gum Nebula in Vela can be seen at top in the Milky Way.
The scene depicts the austral autumn evening sky of late March from a latitude iof 30 degrees south.
This is a stack of 5 x 1.5-minute exposures, all tracked on the iOptron Sky Tracker, at f/2.8 with the 15mm fish-eye lens, and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. The ground comes from just one of the tracked exposures to minimize blurring. Taken from the Tibuc Gardens Cottage near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia on March 30, 2016.
Large and Small Magellanic Clouds in the busy night sky filled with stars and satellites over Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d810a
35mm
ISO 2500
f/2.2
27 x 8 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 27 shot panorama of the recent worldwide aurora event on May 11 incorporated into a full panorama of the rising Milky Way taken at Stirling Dam, 1.5 hours south of Perth in Western Australia.
One thing I did not envisage when going out to shoot the aurora for the first time was the effect it would have on the other features of the night sky, in particular the Milky Way arch. The overpowering red glow covered the arch completely and I've had to try and temper its effect as best I could with this panorama as almost the whole sky was glowing and incredibly bright red.
When also shooting H-alpha frames it makes it even harder, being red in colour as well. You can just make out some of the Ha regions, mainly the Gum Nebula just above the tallest tree. The central yellow part of the aurora was brightened somewhat by the light pollution from an alumina mine about 15km south of the dam.
Nikon d810a
85mm
ISO 2000
f/2
Foreground: 16 x 20 seconds
Sky: 81 x 30 seconds
H-Alpha: 15 x 60 seconds
iOptron Skytracker
This is a 112 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above a sheep farm at Konnongorring, 2 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia.
I spent a couple of hours taking the individual shots for this panorama and had no idea there was a flock of sheep just in front of me, if you look around the windmill you can see them. They must have stood very still!
Prominent in this image are the Magellanic Clouds just right of the windmill. Partially obscured by light pollution is the large Gum Nebula and above that is the pink Carina Nebula. On the left are various areas of hydrogen alpha emitting regions, captured thanks to a special filter which isolates that wavelength.
Brand-new MeerKAT telescope dishes with a backdrop of our own Galaxy - the Milky Way - and two of the small orbiting satellite galaxies - the small and large Magellanic Clouds - to the left of it.
A project with miracle quality is taking shape in the Karoo. As a future part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA,) this dish of the 64 element MeerKAT telescope gazes at the night sky, the Milky Way wheeling overhead.
I spent two nights with friends at the site photographing these wonderful telescopes and taking in the spectacle afforded by the deep black sky, unaffected by ambient light.
Nikon d810a
35mm
ISO 3200
f/2.2
Foreground: 10 x 25 seconds
Sky: 15 x 20 seconds
H-Alpha: 3 x 60 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 28 shot panorama of the Crux and Carina region of the Milky Way above the mud cracked surface of Yenyening Lakes, 2 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.
I've been to this location several times but usually it's at the bigger lake a little bit further east but I saw another photographer's panorama he took here a few nights before this and noticed the prominent cracking in the mud, thanks to the scorching summer we've had this yeaer. So I packed my gear and headed down with a friend to try and find them. We got lucky in seeing them at just the second spot we stopped at.
Despite our luck there it wasn't with us with the conditions as it was a night of strong winds and approaching clouds. Thankfully the clouds were to the north so didn't impact this particular shot. As has been the case during this period of solar maximum, there was some pretty strong airglow around too. The Magellanic Clouds can be seen on the right side of the image and the deep red region is the Gum Nebula, captured using a hydrogen alpha filter.
The UT4 telescope at Paranal Observatory aiming its four lasers towards a star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. Despite their menacing appearance, the lasers are used for completely peaceful goals :-) They excite sodium atoms located at 80-90km above the ground, making them shine. This creates four artificial “stars” whose rapid twinkling we can monitor in real time. We then send this information to a flexible mirror that deforms hundreds of times per second, correcting the blur caused by the atmospheric turbulence, and yielding very sharp images. If you scroll down my feed you’ll find a zoomed-in image of the lasers and the Large Magellanic Cloud from a different angle.
I’ve posted so many images of the lasers that I’ve already run out of Star Wars/Death Star jokes :-) What else do these lasers remind you of?
Canon 6D + Tamron 45 mm f/1.8, 10 secs, ISO3200. Edited in Lightroom and Affinity Photo.
Exactly on year ago - right after Christmas - I traveled with Eva & Sandra (Kleine Klinke) to Mauritius to spend NYE and a few days more. I was really excited about seeing the night sky of the Southern hemisphere for the first time. Unfortunately cyclone Ava came across my plans. So despite a bright shining moon (between 75% and super full moon) we had mostly cloudy nights and sometimes very heavy rainfall. So I started to focus on learning how to mix tropical cocktails in the evenings because there was almost no chance for me to take pictures. But I always had an eye on the forecasts and so two days before our departure I finally got a chance to photograph one of the most characteristic celestial objects in the southern night sky - the large and small margellanic clouds at the local beach of Tamarin while the cyclone made a short break and gave me 2h for a half clear sky.
Out at a favourite dark sky spot, both of the Magellanic Clouds were stunning. At the end of an imaging session, I couldn't help but fire off some frames to capture them.
Night panorama at Paranal Observatory. Apart from the Milky Way you can see the Magellanic Clouds and Barnard's loop, the reddish nebula around Orion, to the right. Canon 6d + Rokinon 24mm f/2, 30 sec, ISO 3200, panorama of 13 vertical shots.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Near Waiinu Beach, New Zealand in April.
The concert in the night.
Milky Way, Carina Nebula and Magellanic Clouds shining in the southern heaven with gentle moonlight shining from the north.
Nikon D810+AF-S Nikkor 20/1.8G lens. This is the first time I tried to show the face of the doll under the starlight with the help of moonlight (thank God the moon shines from the north in the southern hemisphere). And also I tried to make the whole view looks like a Anime scene with more details and colours.
Hope you enjoy it.
Music by Dexter Britain - "Time Catches Up"
I'm thrilled to have created my first "Time lapse" video of the starry night sky in Lake Tekapo.
Sitting in the freezing cold for more than an hour - rewarded with sights of shooting stars and the milky way turning to the earth's orbit
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the Milky Way night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d5500
35mm
ISO 3200
f/3.2
20 x 25 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 20 shot panorama of the Magellanic Clouds over Yenyening Lakes near Beverley, about 2 hours east of Perth. The Carina Nebula can be see to the left of the larger tree, just above the horizon. The lake was again nice and still this night so the reflections were a bonus :)
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
The wonders of the southern hemisphere sky rising over the Tasman Sea at Cape Conran, on the Gippsland Coast of Victoria. Australia, on March 31, 2017.
The head and neck of the Dark Emu is rising from the ocean. At top is the Carina Nebula area, below is Crux, the Southern Cross, and below it are the twin Pointer Stars of Alpha and Beta Centauri. At top right is the Large Magellanic Cloud, and below it is the Small Magellanic Cloud. Left (north) of the Crux and Pointers is the fuzzy spot of Omega Centauri globular cluster. At far right is the star Achernar. At centre is the area of the South Celestial Pole.
The dim red glow in the sky due south at centre might be aurora australis but is likely airglow.
This is a stack of 4 x 40-second exposures, untracked, for the ground, mean combined to smooth noise, and one 40-second exposure for the sky, all at f/2.5 with the 14mm Rokinon lens and Canon 6D at ISO 3200.
Despite the drought that’s afflicted most of my home state of New South Wales, there is a lot of green in this photo. The poplar trees that had been bare during winter and earlier in our southern spring were well dressed in their foliage, and the paddocks behind them seemed to have had enough water to keep them looking just as green. On this night the sky was showing a lovely shade of green, too. That colour in the background sky comes from the atmospheric effect known as “airglow”, a feature of the night that our unaided eyes cannot see.
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds–companion galaxies that are travelling through space with our Milky Way–are the two distinct, fuzzy objects that are hanging in the heavens between the two poplars. Although they’re visible all year round, the summer months down here below the equator provide some of the best opportunities to see and photograph the two stellar sidekicks.
Photographed near the rural city of Nowra, Australia, in late October of 2019, I shot this single-frame image using a Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens @ f/2.4, with an exposure time of 15 seconds @ ISO 6400.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Vertical alignment of the AT1 telescope and the Magellanic Clouds at Paranal Observatory. The bright compact source above the Small Magellanic Cloud is the globular cluster NGC104. You can also see some really faint red and green airglow towards the horizon.
The Magellanic Clouds are two dwarf galaxies in orbit around the Milky Way, located at at distance of 160,000 light years (large one) and 200,000 light years (small one). When the light that we now receive from the Magellanic Clouds left those galaxies, the first Homo Sapiens had just appeared on Earth. And these are some of the closest galaxies to us! This gives you an idea of how ridiculously large the universe is.
I took this image with a Canon 6D and a Tamron 45mm lens at f/1.8. I can’t praise this Tamron lens enough. It’s incredibly sharp from corner to corner!
This is a stack of 11 untracked images of 10 seconds each, at ISO6400. Given the rotation of the sky, I stacked the foreground and background separately. The stacking was done in Hugin, with further editing in Affinity Photo.
You MUST see this full size. It's awesome.
The Milky Way arches across this rare 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal platform, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The image was made from 37 individual frames with a total exposure time of about 30 minutes, taken in the early morning hours. The Moon is just rising and the zodiacal light shines above it, while the Milky Way stretches across the sky opposite the observatory.
The open telescope domes of the world’s most advanced ground-based astronomical observatory are all visible in the image: the four smaller 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes that can be used together in the interferometric mode, and the four giant 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes. To the right in the image and below the arc of the Milky Way, two of our galactic neighbours, the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, can be seen.
An amazing interactive virtual tour is available here.